George H.W. Bush, US leader as iron curtain fell, dies age 94

Longest-living president who oversaw dissolution of Soviet Union, Gulf War, NAFTA, led a political dynasty, passes away in his home in Houston

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01.12.2018

George H.W. Bush, the US president who fashioned a restrained response to the Soviet Union’s collapse and assembled the multinational coalition that liberated Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion, hoping that would be a model for "a new world order," has died. He was 94.

Bush died shortly after 10pm Friday at his home in Houston, according to a statement from a family spokesman. The longest-living president in American history, he used a wheelchair in recent years after being diagnosed with a form of Parkinson's disease. His wife of 73 years, Barbara, died on April 17 at age 92.